Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 475th episode of the Hollywood Reporters

Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the world's

greatest living novelists, who is also a newly Oscar nominated screenwriter as well.

For his adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film Akira, into the script for Oliver Hermannes'

2022 film Living, Kazuo Ishiguro. A Japanese-born Brit Ishiguro has written eight novels over the

last 41 years, which have collectively sold more than 2.5 million copies in the US alone.

Most notably, 1989's The Remains of the Day, which was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize,

and 2005's Never Let Me Go, which Time Magazine shows us one of the 100 greatest English

language novels since 1923, and which Los Angeles Times described as, quote,

probably thus far, the most important English language novel of the new century, close quote.

Both of those titles were adapted by others into highly acclaimed films.

In recognition of Ishiguro's collective body of work, he was chosen as the recipient of the Nobel

Prize in Literature for 2017, just a year after one of his heroes Bob Dylan was tapped for the same

honor, making him only its 29th recipient for work in the English language. His Nobel citation

declared that he, quote, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our

illusory sense of connection with the world, close quote. The New York Times, meanwhile,

has called him a blue chip literary stock, one of the most acclaimed and influential British writers

of his generation, and a writer who takes enormous gambles, then uses his superior gifts to manage

the risk as tightly as possible. While also heralding, his pared down, Pinterest pros,

his masterful narrative control, and his virtuosic use of understatement and illusion.

And the Los Angeles Times has described him as, that rarest of creatures, a literary craftsman

who also sells books, while asserting that few writers who've ever lived have been able to create

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